Photo by Jay Peters / The Verge Meta is overhauling its metaverse avatars, and you'll be able to use them soon: the new look will be available on October 1st, the company announced at its Connect conference on Wednesday. The new avatars will be available on Meta Horizon OS (its VR operating system), as well as Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.Meta's avatars started out in a rough place, but the company has made steady improvements, and these changes look to build on that. With the upgraded avatars, Meta is going to give users new ways to fine-tune things like eye size, nose shape, and body shapes, Meta's Aigerim Shorman, a VP on the Horizon team, said onstage. That's thanks in part to a new underlying tech stack, which includes an updated avatar skeleton.Of course,... Continue reading...